Speaker 1: All start Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester.
Speaker 2: And Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning.
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Speaker 1: You're locked in to Off the Bench control the live
from downtown Baton Rouge. Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: Let's go, Welcome in TV. What's today? Wednesday? Yep, Wednesday Mornings,
the first day of the rest of the week.
Speaker 5: Hold on, hold on, it's the first day of the
re Okay, yep, yep, yep. That tracks, that checks out,
that checks out. It's not Tuesday. It is no longer Tuesday.
We made it. You made it.
Speaker 4: We all made it.
Speaker 5: All downhill from here, people, absolutely is. We've got a
lot to get to. Jake, Alandra Flynn, Tatay, all here
with you.
Speaker 4: It's Wednesday.
Speaker 5: We got doctor Stephen Etheridge, we got dear Delandra. Would
you rather Wednesday? Lot come in your way? But before
we get to any of it, how you doing, mister Matthew.
Speaker 6: I'm doing fantastic. I'm feeling good. Got my blue hat
on today. You know what that means a lot of energy,
a lot of good energy.
Speaker 4: I've never heard that. You've never explained that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not like you were trying to explain something
in the moment. Could you further explain?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 6: And I just came up with it right now. Okay,
So I'm feeling good. No, I'm feeling feeling great, excited.
Been chopping up a little game film. Hopefully we get
to that a little bit later in the show. Yeah,
and we kind of the programming so we can.
Speaker 4: That's a good point. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So yeah, looking forward to an amazing slate of some
college football.
Speaker 4: It is so excited about it.
Speaker 5: It is a very much let's put you into tier
system weekend in college.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's away game, so for a lot of us,
it's one of those let's imprint our butt cheeks on the.
Speaker 4: Couch this weekend, watch a lot of football.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'll have mine probably in like typically in the booth.
It's like a barstool situation.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, well, I mean, yeah, you don't get the
normal game day experience of just like locking in in
the living room. Let's make no plans. Still gonna be
a good father. Sounds like I'm gonna watch a bit
of pretty big slate of games this week. Ye oh,
that's fair. It's fair.
Speaker 4: I'll be I'll be in Oxford. I'll be honed in
on one game. I know you will.
Speaker 6: Well, that's exciting too. I want to have the quad box.
Sorry though, I got five games going at once.
Speaker 4: You know that.
Speaker 5: Trust me when I say, between our group text and
the group text we have with others, I know what's going.
Speaker 4: On across the country. You're gonna be well informed.
Speaker 5: There's nothing like a big third down that's coming up
for the Tigers and I get a message what is
Indiana doing on the corner route?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 6: Yep, and you're gonna get a real good breakdown, a
detailed breakdown of some obscure like ole miss stat from
the last couple of years leading up into their fifth
game of the season from Bull Hurley.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's gonna give it to you. Yeah, some obscuse thing.
You can use it.
Speaker 5: That's good and you're gonna read it and you'll be like, huh,
yeah makes sense, it does it does FID We often
get there. We often get there. Uh a lodger, what's
going on? How you doing this morning?
Speaker 7: Doing good? Ready?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I feel the vibes are way better than they've been
all week.
Speaker 8: When I walked in. The only person that said hi
to me when I walked in was Taylor.
Speaker 4: Sorry, we were locked We were locked in. We were
watching coverages from Old Miss and sorry. We spiritually said high.
Speaker 7: Yes, spiritually, Yeah, I felt it. I felt the high.
Speaker 4: I know you did.
Speaker 6: We we uh we said high to you by teaching
some football.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're showing you cover one. If you're if you
were paying attention to what we were.
Speaker 8: Saying, I was trying to get the live sheet, so
you weren't. I was not paying attention. But I did
hear y'all talking about the guy. He didn't have a
good signal. He literally signaled one yes to tell the
defense that they were going in to cover one.
Speaker 5: Okay, so you were, you were, You were hustling a
little bit, all right, How are we doing?
Speaker 4: Guys?
Speaker 2: Were feeling good this morning, a good mood.
Speaker 5: He must have watched his Baker Mayfield highlight before he
came on today.
Speaker 2: I do that every night before. It's no different. Uh. No,
we're feeling good, guys.
Speaker 9: Uh, just just wake up in the morning. You're a
little bit more awake than you normally are you know,
so it's just good mood.
Speaker 8: Wait, speaking of this morning, can we talk about that
Zion pick.
Speaker 5: That you said, Oh, I just I didn't see it
until I got it, Like until I got in studio
this morning.
Speaker 6: What I looked at it and I said, oh, oh,
oh oh oh ZIMPG.
Speaker 4: I thought it was.
Speaker 7: A I it doesn't even look like him.
Speaker 4: I really thought I was like, oh, Flynn's yeah, back
with his best friend again. Did it again?
Speaker 7: Do you think he heard fat shaming him that one time?
Speaker 4: Because I did.
Speaker 2: I think two weeks ago.
Speaker 9: We're but okay me of all people like, look, I
never take an opportunity to not fat shame Zion. I
miss fat Zion on the pick based on one picture.
I miss him already come back, our little chubby king.
Speaker 4: Well to you know, to his.
Speaker 5: He has not like a bigger Zion has not been
very successful staying on the court, and that always played.
Speaker 4: He's actually he's always played. Well.
Speaker 5: Uh so maybe he's like, you know what, we're a
bad franchise. We're run by the same people that run
the Saints. They're also a bad franchise. Right now, I'm
gonna change the direction of this franchise. I can't go
out there and rush the passer or I can't block
a three technique where he probably could better than Caesar.
But you know what I'm saying. So he's like, I'm
gonna change my body. I'm gonna be a little bit different.
Speaker 9: I don't hate it only because like it doesn't look right.
But he wasn't tough when he was big. I understand
that he looks frail, but like, you've got to be
somewhat tougher, right, that's all I care about.
Speaker 2: If this makes him tougher.
Speaker 5: It's weird, I don't so I don't know if it
was a toughness issue with Zion.
Speaker 4: I think his body just failed.
Speaker 5: Him maybe, but because like he played, because he played tough.
Speaker 2: He did, but there was a lot of times where
I felt like he could have given it a go.
Speaker 5: And sometimes and I'll never know this world, and you
don't either. Actually, none of us in this room know
this world. If we're being completely honest, where you're so
athletic and you're in your body can't keep up with
the things that you wanted to do.
Speaker 4: I think Zion.
Speaker 5: I think Zion falls into that category right of He's
very explosive and twitchy and all these things. And we
talk about it oftentimes with like track guys that are
playing football.
Speaker 4: It's like hamstrings and you.
Speaker 5: Know, tissue issues, and Zion falls into that category.
Speaker 9: We see in basketball a lot, the torn achilles and
you can always see it because like the calf does
a little shake, you know. And we're watching the NBA
Finals over the summer. I explain this exact thing to
Victoria and she goes, oh, that's awful, Like that was
like a simple move. I was like, that can't happen
to us. Victoria, She's like, well, it's like we're not
explosive enough athletes. I was like, I was like, that's
something I'm never gonna have to worry about.
Speaker 2: Like we're good, We're good.
Speaker 4: On now man. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we will never know what that feels like, Well,
your body just fails you because of athleticism, Like the
things that he can do at that size, like the
human body wasn't meant to do, especially him being so young,
Like you don't really know, like it's growth plates might
have still been for me, who really knows. So you
lose a little bit of weight, whether it was you know,
the shot or I don't know.
Speaker 4: Math. I don't know what it is, but like.
Speaker 7: What how do you go from a shot to.
Speaker 4: Meth I'm trying to figure out what you drop that
much weight? Loa, have you ever heard of meth gators?
Speaker 7: I have heard it like here and there?
Speaker 4: All right, you still have to drop?
Speaker 7: Probably not.
Speaker 4: It was probably didn't even.
Speaker 5: Have anymore what They probably didn't give us drops They
probably those and hanging with Hester I probably did not well.
In case you want to go back in the archives
and find a full two hour episode on meth gators,
we had.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go, perfectators. The excitement we replaced gators
was ion.
Speaker 5: Now, No, I don't think we want to accuse of.
Speaker 9: Taking Scott in the shot, said, I hope it was
ozembic and not the white powder.
Speaker 4: So he's on the.
Speaker 6: Same good for him, revenge body, maybe revenge body to.
Speaker 4: Him for himself. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm sure he's going to feel better, but like anything's
better than what he's been doing, so.
Speaker 4: Good for him.
Speaker 7: I just feel like it is the shot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I'm not hating him if it is the
joke here, I.
Speaker 8: Just feel like you don't get nutrients, right, you're frail.
But yeah, shout out of ion, I guess.
Speaker 4: And like it hasn't been working the way you've been
doing it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, why do I try something different to stay healthy?
Speaker 6: I did seehim get interviewed too. He said he's felt
he felt physically so better than he has early in
college or even in high school.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll go the smallest he's been since.
Speaker 5: I because I don't think the Saints are going to
give us any hope out of New Orleans this year,
so maybe the Pails can give it to us.
Speaker 4: No, the Saints, they're gonna beat the Bills.
Speaker 5: Yeah, on that note, in your survivor league, ahead and
picked the bills if you haven't already.
Speaker 6: No faith in me, am, I pick'ems? Yeah, what about
my fandom? See, it's one of those deals worth faith.
Speaker 5: You picked the bills in your survivor league, and then
if the Saints win, you're okay with it because it's
a massive upset.
Speaker 6: Yeah, edging with a motion there, Sure, Okay, you know
what I'm saying. I did. I do have a buddy
like that. He likes to bet against LSU.
Speaker 5: I'll got a plan like that, but against LSU and
if they went and like I paid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I paid one hundred bucks for l win.
Speaker 7: I just didn't.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't ever bet not against but like four or against.
Speaker 4: I don't ever bet on LSU again to bet with
my heart a lot.
Speaker 7: I don't bet on LSU games, but I did. I
did that with Canelo.
Speaker 4: You bet against.
Speaker 7: I was so sad he lost, but I got something.
Speaker 4: You just money out of it. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: It was good odds to.
Speaker 5: Get an emotional hedge there. Yeah, well done, well done.
Speaker 4: Uh. Starting the show was Zion. Yes, yes we did.
Now we did.
Speaker 5: Here's what transformation and christ to here's the deal, like
we we didn't like mean for it to.
Speaker 7: We didn't plan that, No, we did.
Speaker 5: Like Matt just sent that like at six forty this morning,
and it kind of shocked all of us. But also,
we won't to allow everybody to get in their car,
everybody to get on the road, turn the radios up.
Speaker 4: They're on their way to school or work right now.
Speaker 5: So when we come back, we'll get the show started
and we'll give you something that is pretty exciting when
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Speaker 1: Thinking about you quite from Flairs to Legends, Hester and
Flynn breakdown L s U Football like only champions can.
Speaker 3: Every thought is you do?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 5: Welcome back in OTB Wednesday morning. And we now know
the future opponents for L s U here in the
near future. You know the twenty twenty six, twenty seven,
twenty eight and twenty nine schedules. Now we don't know
like where the games are going to be placed right now,
but we know the opponent and we know the location.
Speaker 4: Is that let me ask you this.
Speaker 6: So they don't usually release schedules this soon, right, This
isn't a normal thing, like you said about this far
in advance.
Speaker 5: No, I think with the new scheduling model obviously, and
they talked about reevaluating in that four year period that
they wanted to go ahead and all it's going to do.
Speaker 4: So the twenty six.
Speaker 5: Home games will be away in twenty eight, the twenty
seven home games will be away in twenty nine. Okay,
so they basically gave you two sets and you just
flip them.
Speaker 6: So but I'm just wondering, is that like they don't
I don't feel like they normally give you all this
information this far in advance. Are they just trying to
like temper the anger of the yearly opponents for everybody.
I'm sure that we weren't the only people that were.
Speaker 5: Like, No, Look, the SEC wanted to have a big show,
the SEC Network in a primetime show.
Speaker 4: That's why got got it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so like the permanent Opponents got leaked by
by Chris Low, but you didn't know who else you
were going to play when you were going to play them.
So the SEC Network had a big primetime show and
they rolled out the red carpet and they kind of
did their whole deal.
Speaker 6: Look, how does that stuff get leaked? I think the
stuff in the NFL, like the Adam Schefter leaks and
like that. All that stuff's like like choreographed a little bit.
I would I would assume that this was as well.
I mean, chrys Low has been covering the SEC. I'm
just trying to figure out what the benefit is that
they're really trying to sell viewership on television. I don't know,
I don't know, probably to get us talking about it
for two or three days before the show last night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but then like who what you watched? Were?
Speaker 6: You know, a lot of people did a lot of
people did just say that I might have tuned in.
Speaker 4: I was grinding flag football.
Speaker 5: I mean obviously, so I didn't tune in, but I
do know the twenty twenty six opponents.
Speaker 4: Now you're going to have home games.
Speaker 5: And if you've got season tickets, what a year against Texas,
A and M, Alabama, Mississippi State and Texas. You got
away games against Arkansas, Ole, Miss, Auburn, Kentucky.
Speaker 4: And Tennessee.
Speaker 5: I actually love this, Like I don't think you're away
games outside of Jordan Hare in Tennessee, right like Kentucky.
It's a cool atmosphere. It's not gonna be the loudest.
Ole Miss not gonna be the loudest, Arkansas not gonna
be the loudest. And then you get home games against
Alabama and against Texas and against Texas A and M.
So you're gonna get A and M back to back
years at home. I love I love Texas finally having
to come play here after you went and played there
in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4: Now you got to you know, yeah, what a year
for season ticket olders for twenty eight.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean you get A and M Texas
and Alabama all in the same year at home.
Speaker 6: Exciting now, And since we're talking about next year, this
is just a hypothetical situation I'm putting I'm gonna throw
at you right now. You can just give an answer
and we can move to twenty twenty seven next year.
Is the LSU starting quarterback on the current roster LSU
starting quarterback in twenty twenty six, Yes, I think so.
Speaker 4: I think so.
Speaker 5: I think that's why you went and got Michael van Buren.
That's just my thought process. If you go get I
really don't have a strong opinion.
Speaker 6: I'm right now the question in this day, this day
and age in college football, you never.
Speaker 5: Know, I know, So, I think you go get somebody
that has eight starts in the sec You say, hey,
we got Gary Nesschmeyer. He's going to go out there
and he's our guy, obviously, but we want you to
send under him, learn under him, and we want you.
Speaker 4: To be our guy in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: And I think, you know, for him to be a
starter and then to come to LSU and realize like
he's gonna not play. That's tough, Like I you know,
I credit so like Deontay Moore did that. So Deontay
Moore was at UCLA, was the starting quarterback there, transfers
to Oregon knowing he's not gonna play and sit behind
Dylan Gabriel for a year and then it's gonna be
his turn this year and he's playing incredibly well. So
I think that's a very similar situation that you have
with the LSU quarterback room.
Speaker 6: Oh you know, I'm always a big fan of a
quarterback sitting and cooking a little bit. So yeah, I
hadn't seen enough of him. I mean, I'm not gonna
judge Vabvieren off of one game. But yeah, I hope
he is. I hope, I hope he's the guy. Well,
I mean, I don't like the thought of how Kevin
go replacing as Meyer from the transfer port You don't
really like unless you're getting like one of the top
five dudes, which is a possibility is LSU we got talent,
osing talent everywhere, right, he can get absolutes here because
you don't speak in flutes in the transfer of portal anymore. Hey,
I'm making you if all of the sudden, here comes
somebody that is undoubtedly you know, Carson Back goes into
the portal and you're like, Mark, M.
Speaker 4: Sure, Arc, Oh well, I don't know actually right now
you know.
Speaker 5: What I'm saying, though, like, maybe okay, then the mat
changes a little bit, but no, I think you have
your starting quarterback. And again you have home games against
A and M, Alabama, Mississippi State, and Texas love the
home slate away games against Arkansas Ole, miss Auburn, Kentucky,
and Tennessee. And also to add to your season tickets,
remember you get Clemson at home as well. So your
home games are Clemson, Texas, A and M, Alabama, Mississippi
State and Texas.
Speaker 6: Bit I'm gonna start searching now for some parking passes.
I'd like to go to some of those games.
Speaker 5: We did have a friend that said, this is a
home slate that could even get Matt Flynn in.
Speaker 6: The stadium, not without a parking pass, though.
Speaker 4: It's be a decent one too. Just stop in twenty
twenty seven.
Speaker 5: Your home games Arkansas, Ole, miss Missouri, Vanderbilt, and Oklahoma.
Your away games Texas, A and M, Florida, Georgia and
South Carolina. So it kind of flips in twenty twenty seven. Right,
your home opponents aren't as sexy as they are in
twenty twenty six. But your away games your two A
and M. You're to Florida, you're too Georgia, and you're
two South Carolina. That's for the hardest places to play
in the country.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a that's a meat grinder right there. For sure.
Home schedules great.
Speaker 6: The home schedule is really favorable. It's like you said,
it's not real sexy. But who knows in twenty twenty seven, Sure,
what the heck Vanderbilt is going to be?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Right, I would assume Oklahoma is going to start keep
ticking up a little bit every single year. I think
they had their I think they've had their down season
and they're going to work their way out. But who knows,
Like Vanderbilt, have they Has Vanderbilt peaked right now?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Have they platt to?
Speaker 6: Have they gone as far as Vanderbilt Athletic or Vanderbilt
Football can go as of right now? I know we're
only handful of games into the season, but they're deadly
right now. They're dangerous. They can make or they can
they can play with anybody in the country right now.
Can they sustain that right at Vanderbilt?
Speaker 4: Yeah? And I'm not even history says no. History does
say no. And you're right.
Speaker 5: You don't know what a team's going to be, but
historically it's all you know. Historically, they they'll they'll not
be great. I mean, Clark understands that program you played there, Yep,
you know it's the challenges.
Speaker 4: It's Clark going to be there.
Speaker 5: Do you leave an SEC job a place that you've
played for anywhere outside of like three jobs for.
Speaker 6: Florida, I don't know, for another SEC job if you
turn Vanderbilt around. One figure. Let me, if you get
to the SEC Championship as Vanderbilt, you don't think people
are gonna be throwing ten million at them.
Speaker 5: I get to stay in the SEC, live in Nashville,
right and have an expectation that if I win eight games,
they're gonna build a statue of me and I played there, ye,
Or I go live in Gainesville, Florida. I'll say that again.
You have to go live in Gainesville, Florida. You have
to cut though, you have to cut all of your
jeans into gene shorts, and you have to win at
least ten games every single year.
Speaker 4: I actually think Vandy is.
Speaker 5: A okay with me, if I'm clerk Lee, so you
would stay at Vandy, then take a blue blood job.
In the last two years, Vanderbilt is on the same
the same level right now, all right now, I know
about Michigan. Okay, I'm going to Michigan. That's what I'm saying.
I think to one of those three five to five
jobs I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
Speaker 6: You know, but all coaches have egos, and that's a
that's not a disparageing like remark. That's it's a good
thing for a coach to have. It's good for quarterbacks,
it's good for people in that kind of position to
have and if you use it positively. But being a
form of fullback, he's might be one of those guys
that doesn't at all.
Speaker 4: He might be one of those guys.
Speaker 6: It's like, I'm a they're gonna put a statue of
me here in Nashville in front of the stadium, this
tiny stadium in Vanderbilt.
Speaker 4: They've added on.
Speaker 6: Cool less tiny, medium size, medium, medium size. Then moving
on up well, like to the point of what you're
asking they hadn't added to that stadium since the seventies
before the last two years, yep.
Speaker 4: And like they're now.
Speaker 5: Building like football operations buildings at Bandy yep. And so
like they're finally getting things that we've always had at
these other places, you know what I mean. So I
think that kind of changes like where their program's at.
And again, that's going to be an away game this year,
which is a massive, massive game, like the closer way
you get to it, and then you're going to have
them come to you in twenty twenty seven. So you're right,
like you don't know where these programs are going to be.
I'm just going off brand, right, I mean, like Texas
is eight and four, like it's still like a big brand.
So going back to what you have in the next year,
Like I think that Home Slate's incredible. You get a
chance to play Auburn again, which I'm excited about that.
That's a series that I hate we haven't played over
the last couple of years. Like you started talking to
a lot of LSU fans whenever the change was made,
whenever they kind of flipped the switch in the late nineties,
and you started to say, oh, wait a minute, LSU
can actually be in the conversation every year, LSU doesn't
have to be, you know, excited about going to the
Independence Bowl.
Speaker 4: Nothing wrong, shout out to my hometown. Three one great.
Speaker 5: But remember I remember when you went and played in
the Independence Ball. You were fired up because you had
been that bad. Well, then in the nineties started a change.
You could see, right, you got Nick Saban, you got
Jimbo Fisher, you got Will Musschamp. He starts to win
some games. That's when the Auburn series for me just
really started to light up. Now you could go back
like Cecil the diesel ran for two hundred and whatever
yards against them, like that game, Like even those games
like really kind of got it started in late nineties,
early two thousands when we were playing every year. There
was some crazy play, right, Ronnie Prue gets called for
landing on top of somebody trying to block an extra
point and they went nine to eight. We had a
game where the guy missed a ton of field goals
and we won that game close. You had to pass
the bird. The game that we lost in six at Auburn.
That was a weird game, wasn't it. Something like seven
to five or something, some weird score line whatever. It
was like, that's a series that mattered to a lot
of people. It mattered to me, and I'm glad to
see something like that come back. Yeah, that's a that
was the rival when we got to school. That was
like the LSU rival.
Speaker 6: It goes in waves depending on what the climate is
in college football, who's good, whatever, but like when I
got there, that was one of the things, Like when
I got introduced in high school to like the motivational
highlight tape.
Speaker 4: That was like gar game was gonna be shown.
Speaker 6: The cigar game was in there and Phil Collins was
playing and it said do you remember, and it was
them smoking the cigars And I remember seeing that as
like a high school kid like getting recruited, and I
was like, oh my god, Like nothing has ever stirred
my emotions more than this Phil Collins song and watching
these Auburn Tigers smoking cigars Paul Kublick in the in
their stadium.
Speaker 4: YEP.
Speaker 5: The series history, l shu's got thirty wins, Auburn's got
twenty four, and there's also a tie, so it's been
highly contested as well. To go back because my memory
doesn't tell me exactly what the score was in these games.
I'm talking about two thousand and four, Auburn wins ten
to nine because we are called for landing on top
of our own guys after they missed the extra point
would have been tied at nine.
Speaker 4: They get another chance to kick it. They win ten
to nine.
Speaker 5: We won here twenty to seventeen in two thousand and
five because their kicker missed a bunch of kicks.
Speaker 4: It was seven to three.
Speaker 5: In two thousand and six, seven to three, seven to three, class.
Speaker 4: Old school sec football. Right there, I'm trying to think
there was one year we had of safety. I can't remember.
I thought it was that year.
Speaker 5: And then in two thousand and seven, of course we
win thirty to twenty four. So that series is back.
Glad that series is back. Let us know what you
think about the schedule in our four or.
Speaker 6: Five years here at LSU. The total number of points
scored in all those games almost gets still hundred in
the four or five games.
Speaker 5: A good old seven to three game. They're both, Wow,
that's what it used to be.
Speaker 4: That's the kind of football.
Speaker 5: Jake chester Lax right there, ten to nine and seven
to three every play gets tightened.
Speaker 4: Bo how about that? Two straight years total points? Yep,
what do you mean? It's good football? Three yards and
a cloud of dust. Oh man?
Speaker 5: All right, So which game are you most excited about
coming back on the schedule in twenty twenty six? Which
game in general are you most excited about? When you
see who you're playing, where you're playing them, let us
know inside to buy you for chat, we'll take a
break more OTB when we come.
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Speaker 1: Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back gin OTB here on this R
and B. Wednesday morning.
Speaker 5: We did have some news out of college football. Yesterday
another coach was shown the door. Now this time this
was somebody that was very tenured.
Speaker 4: Wait, we have to have a memoriam. What do you
mean for Gundy? Yeah, gotta pour one out. I don't
have any I mean to pour out.
Speaker 6: We have that picture. We're getting it right now. Perfect.
Speaker 5: So Mike Gundhy in his career at Oklahoma State, remember
he takes over. It's the only head coaching job he's
ever had. He takes over after Less Miles came to
LA in two thousand and five. Mike Gundy takes that
job over and he has been the head coach there
ever since. At one point they went to eighteen straight
bowl games. He has a career record of one hundred
and seventy and ninety overall at Oklahoma State. So he
was doing things with them for them that they had
never done before. He was one oh two and seventy
two in conference play and twenty eleven, as we all remember,
they were a couple of plays away from playing for
a national championship against LSU. So a lot of success,
had a very long tenure, very successful. But over the
last two years they are right now combined four and eleven.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been pretty ugly this season, and yeah, college football,
we lost a good one.
Speaker 4: We lost a good one.
Speaker 6: See that he didn't die, Ladies and gentlemen, Cowboys, fans, mulled, enthusiasts,
and those who still can't believe this day has come.
We are gathered here to bid farewell, not to a man,
but to a two decade era. On the sideline, Mike
Gundy's time as head coach at Oklahoma State has officially come.
Speaker 4: To an end after twenty years.
Speaker 6: Twenty years in college football years, that's basically forever. Most
coaches don't last long enough to remember where the light
switches are in their office in Gundhy was over here
coaching the kids, the players he once recruited. His tenure
wasn't just a career, it was a geological era right
there in still Water.
Speaker 4: It's a chat Gpt by the.
Speaker 6: Way, Let's not forget he gave us moments that will
live forever. Big twelve championships, countless bedling memories, and of
course the rant I'm a man, I'm forty. We'll live
on longer than the oil well outside Boon Picken Stadium. Honestly,
they could carve it into the side of Gallagher Iba
Arena and call it a new campus motto. He leaves
with a program that was never boring. Oklahoma State may
not have always been the biggest prize, but they always
had a puncher's chance and usually a quarterback who could
throw for four thousand yards. And let's be honest, nobody
has done more for the Mullet's public image since Billy
Ray Cyrus. So today we don't more in the end
of Mike Gundy at Oklahoma State. We celebrate the fact
that for twenty years he turned Cowboys football into something
you couldn't ignore. He was loyals, stubborn, fiery, and occasionally hilarious.
Kind of like that uncle who shows up at Thanksgiving
and a bolo tie and tells the same story every year,
But you love him. For Coach Gundhy, wherever you go
from here, and just know you'll always be R man
by R I mean Oklahoma States. If you don't yell
about it quite as loud anymore, Rest easy, Coach, there's
one heck.
Speaker 4: Of a ride. It's vultures.
Speaker 7: You're back stuck.
Speaker 5: Keep some trust, Coach Gundy two thousand and five to
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: Love you, coach, irp me and matter both than our
Mike Gundy year. And we don't have that.
Speaker 5: If it's not for Mike Gundy, we don't have giving
us that good word of you're fully grown.
Speaker 4: When you're forty years old.
Speaker 6: I don't know when they're going to make you the statue,
but it.
Speaker 4: Can't come soon enough. Boiling out? Will the statue have
them at? Oh?
Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure, it's got to be those glasses too.
That's a sad day for college football, honestly, the four
one out. But if you're in the car, don't pour out.
Speaker 4: Like hot copy. Yeah, I don't do that.
Speaker 5: Be safe out there, this is a man that was
your quarterback from nineteen eighty six to nineteen eighty nine.
This is a man that was your receivers coach in
nineteen ninety He coached quarterbacks for you from nineteen ninety
one to nineteen ninety three. He was your offensive coordinator
in nineteen ninety four, he got that title taken away
from him and was just your quarterbacks coach in nineteen
ninety five. Then he leaves and goes to Baylor. He
even goes up to Maryland for a couple of years
where he's their passing game coordinator. Then he comes back
and he is your assistant head coach and offensive coordinator
from two thousand and one to two thousand and four.
And since that day, he's been your head coach until yesterday,
Gone but not forgotten.
Speaker 4: Mike Gundy, Rest easy, coach. We gotta go to break.
Too emotional.
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Speaker 11: Oh, it's amazing how you knocked me off my feet
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Oh yeah, nobody ever made me.
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Speaker 2: You kiss my lips and then you take my breath.
Speaker 5: Ahway, So all right, welcome back in OTV here on
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Speaker 6: This's a jam Joe, right, yeah, Joe, not just joke,
Joe mama, just joke, just not a Joe.
Speaker 2: We knew we could go down.
Speaker 4: If you could get someone with Joe mama or Yo mama.
Back in eighth grade, you.
Speaker 5: For a week understood what you or if you had
you hit somebody with your mama joke and you got
some mambas there before lunch, you do the yeah, can
tell me nothing. How about this for a little uh,
where we're at in college football stat the top seven
transfer portal classes in college football from a year ago.
So that's l s U, Texas Tech, Miami, Ole, miss Oregon,
Florida State, and Missouri are a combined twenty seven right now.
Speaker 4: Twenty seven?
Speaker 5: And oh, hey, tte, what's Dabo's record at Clemson?
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 2: Dabo Sweeney would be one in three.
Speaker 5: Hey, Mike Gundy, who was also pretty outspoken about not
liking where college football was going. Hey, we've already given
him as flowers. Now we can poo pooh. He's one
and two. You better get on the train or you
can be left at the train station with your bag
in hand watching it go the opposite direction.
Speaker 4: You don't have to love it, you don't have to.
Speaker 5: Agree with it, but if you want to stay employed
and moving in the right direction, you gotta do it.
And I'm not talking about having wholesale changes. Okay, because
I didn't notice, I did not say the biggest transfer classes. Now,
Ole miss had thirty, so they fall into that category.
Organ only had eleven, LSU had eighteen, Miami had nineteen,
Missouri had twenty two. So you're kind of in that rang.
You're gonna have to do it again. I look, I
love when somebody gets to develop and gets a chance
to be in the same place. I'm not telling everybody
to transfer, but it is what it is. There's a
transfer portal, and so if you've got money to spend
and you need help, I'll the LSU defensive back room.
Speaker 4: What do you do?
Speaker 5: You go get players that have played you go get
guys that have started multiple years at Virginia Tech in
Houston and NC State in Florida, and you fix a
problem much quicker than you normally could.
Speaker 4: So again, it's not my favorite.
Speaker 5: Thing in the world, because you know, I like people
to get opportunities, but if you're not ready for that opportunity.
And I got to coach a team, and I got
to put a good team out there, and I got
to be competitive.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go into the portal.
Speaker 5: I'm going to bring in eighteen players with a lot
of experience that have been through the fire that can
help me win. Right now, it's just kind of the
way that it's going. It's it's not trending in that direction.
It's fully full steam ahead already in that direction.
Speaker 6: That kind of I was always under the the thought
of I respected the mindset, at least for a little while.
I respected wanting to kind of stay traditional and be
a little bit different from what everybody else is reacting to.
Like I'm always like with anything, I'm kind of like
hesitant to react a lot because I want to see
how things play out.
Speaker 4: And so I mean, I respected the.
Speaker 6: Thought process of a Davo of trying to stay true
to what he feels college football should be. Blah blah blah.
But it turns out people like money. And it turns
out if you feel that you're good at something and
other people that are good at the same thing you
do are getting paid, you also would like to get paid.
And it's a big motivator. And you just gave it
a pretty astonishing stat about the top spenders being twenty
seven to oh to this point in the season. That's
a pretty clear and obvious picture, clearly, pretty clear and
obvious statement that if you like it, hate it, you
want to fight against it all you want, that's great,
but it ain't changing like this. It's not rolling backwards.
It's not going to happen. So you got to get
on board. You adapt or you die. And if you
don't adapt, Dabo, we might be given a eulogia for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe not this year, but you're gonna have a
black and.
Speaker 6: White picture up here right here, probably running down the hill,
maybe one tumbling down the hill.
Speaker 4: We'll see see a year plays out.
Speaker 8: Did y'all have Mike Gundy getting fired before Billion Apier
on your bingo card.
Speaker 7: If they lost this last game?
Speaker 4: That he was already going to be I thought, sure,
got embarrassed.
Speaker 5: Now, I mean they lost, they they lost by multiple scores.
But if it had been like not bad for them,
if it had been like forty five to three, then yeah,
I guess you're hoping that you can have magic strike
twice like it did last year where you rally off
four victories in.
Speaker 2: The road, but at the beginning of the year last
year too.
Speaker 5: Well, then you got you got embarrassed by Texas. Then
you beat lsu Ole, miss and Florida.
Speaker 4: State in the year.
Speaker 3: M h.
Speaker 7: But is that like sustainable and good?
Speaker 5: No, God, no, I'm not. I'm not agreeing with the decision,
but Strickling's going with here. But I'm just maybe, like
that's my only thought right now because the way Oklahoma
State did it, Like these guys have played in four
games now, yeah, now Ucla, the way that they did
it in Virginia Tech, those guys can all red shirt
and go in the portal.
Speaker 4: And now a lot of them didn't they played this
last week, but they could have.
Speaker 9: Speaking of that, like, I'm not a big conspiracy theorist.
DJ lack hurt yet again because apparently he's made of Porcelain.
But DJ Lagway, DJ Lagway has played in four games? Yeah,
how hurt is DJ Lagway? Is Djlagway hurt? Or is
DJ Logway playing in four games? And be like, you
know what, my coach is cooked?
Speaker 2: See what happens? I ain't burning this year. It's possible.
So I don't know conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 5: I think DJ Lagway is a great young man, like
I truly do like having one on one conversations with him.
So I don't know if he quit on his team
to your point, But I also know that he's at
Florida because of billion napiers.
Speaker 4: Right, that's this guy.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and that's what I'm saying, like he knows. Look
he's done. I don't want to burn this year. I'm
gonna have to go somewhere else.
Speaker 4: Regards how about this conspiracy theory?
Speaker 6: How about the powers that be a Florida saying, Billy,
you got this year, we're firing you after this year.
We're not fire you mid season because like, what are
we gonna do then? So you can play it out,
but you don't get DJ Lagley because we're going to
keep them. We're gonna keep that eligibility for our new
coach conspiracy theory, that's it. But who's But let me
ask you this, based on what that like that, who's
paying DJ Lagway to go be their starting quarterback based
on his performance to date?
Speaker 5: There's not, I like to a launchest point, there's people
that still will because of the flashes.
Speaker 6: What flashes from a year ago? I mean, everybody's got
a couple of good highlight.
Speaker 4: Tapes and they'll get paid. You know that.
Speaker 5: You know that's the way that it works now. I mean,
we could go across the country.
Speaker 8: My like, off the top of my head, but I'm
sure it's happened.
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